CNG 102, Lot: 728. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis II, with Septimius Severus or Caracalla. AD 211/2-226/7. EL Stater (19mm, 7.71 g, 12h). Dated BE 508 (AD 211/2). Diademed and draped bust of Rhescuporis right / Laureate head of emperor right; star before, HΦ (date) below. Frolova dies B/c; MacDonald 551/2. Good VF, light scrape on obverse portrait, metal flaw on reverse.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind 136 (26 October 2005), no. 111.

The staters from the years 507 and 508 of the Bosporan Era have very ambiguous portraits on the reverse – sometimes more closely resembling Septimius Severus, other times Caracalla, and very often featuring a hybrid of the two.